. 


"(gefouefc  anfc  Smf0fuf." 


/Ifoemorial  Sermon 


ON  THE 

LIFE  AND  CHARACTER 


LATE  BISHOP  OF  MASSACHUSETTS. 

PKEACHED  AT  THE  OPENING  SERVICES  OF  THE  DIOCESAN 

CONVENTION,   IN  TBINITY  CHUBCH,   BOSTON,   ON 

THE  29TH   OF   APBIL,   1891. 

BY 

THE  RT.  REV.  THOMAS  MARCH  CLARK,  D.D.,  LL.D., 

BISHOP  OF  RHODE  ISLAND. 

PUBLISHED  BY  REQUEST  OF  THE  CONVENTION. 


BOSTON: 

DAMRELL    AND    UPHAM, 

(SUCCESSORS  TO  CUPPLES,  UPHAM  &  COMPANY,) 

£$e  fef5  Corner  (glooft«tore^ 

283  WASHINGTON  STBEET. 

1891. 


UUSB   L1BRARX 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER 


Li    U  I  J.  1  17  1  i 
LATE  BISHOP  OF  MASSACHUSETTS. 

I'KE  ACHED   AT  THE   OPENING   SERVICES   OF  THE   DIOCESAN 

CONVENTION,   IN  TRINITY  CHURCH,   BOSTON,   ON 

THE  29TH   OF   APRIL,   1891. 

BY 

THE  RT.  REV.  THOMAS  MARCH  CLARK,  D.D.,  LL.D., 

BISHOP  OF  RHODE  ISLAND. 

PUBLISHED  BY  REQUEST  OF  THE  CONVENTION. 


BOSTON: 

DAMRELL    AND    UPHAM, 

(SUCCESSOBS  TO  CUPPLES,  UPHAM  &  COMPANY,) 

Z$t  &(b  Cornet  QBooftotore, 
283  WASHINGTON  STREET. 

1891. 


DIOCESE  OF  MASSACHUSETTS. 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETAUY  OF  THE  CONVENTION, 

ST.  ANDREW'S  HOUSE,  18  CHAMBERS  STKEKT, 

BOSTON,  May  4,  1891. 
REVEREND  FATHER  IN  GOD : 

I  have  the  honor  of  transmitting  to  you  the  following  Resolution 
passed  at  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Convention 
of  the  Diocese  of  Massachusetts  on  the  second  day  of  its  Session,  Thursday, 
April  30,  1891. 

"  On  motion  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  F.  Fales,  it  was 
"  Resolved,  That  thanks  be  extended  to  the  Bishop  of  Rhode  Island  for 
his  excellent  discourse  in  memory  of  our   lamented   Bishop,  and   that   he 
be  requested   to  allow  its  publication  and   distribution   by  the  Secretary  of 
this  Convention." 

Hoping  to  receive  from  you  a  favorable  reply,  I  am 

Faithfully  yours, 

WM.    HENRY  BROOKS, 

Secretary  of  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  Massachusetts. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  THOMAS  M.  CLARK,  D.D.,  LL.D. 


PROVIDENCE,  R.  I., 

May  5th,  1891. 
REVEREND  AND  DEAR  DOCTOR: 

I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  communication  of 
the4thinst.,  and  thanking  the  Convention  of  Massachusetts  for  their  kind 
reception  of  my  Memorial  Sermon,  I  submit  the  manuscript  to  you  for 
publication. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

THOMAS  M.  CLARK. 

The  Rev.  WM.  HENRY  BROOKS,  D.D., 

Secretary  of  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  Massachusetts. 


T.     R.      MARVIN     &     SON, 

CHURCH     PRESS, 
73     FEDERAL    STREET,     BOSTON. 


MEMORIAL  DISCOURSE. 


EPHESIANS   VI.    21. 
"  A    BELOVED    BROTHER    AND    FAITHFUL    MINISTER    IN    THE     LORD." 


Apostle  Paul,  while  imprisoned  at  Rome, 
I  appears  to  have  found  there  a  disciple  of 
Christ,  with  whom  he  established  a  special  inti- 
macy, and  he  sends  him  to  the  Church  at  Ephesus 
as  the  bearer  of  a  message  of  counsel,  and  also 
with  directions  to  inform  the  Ephesians  of  his  pri- 
vate affairs,  in  order  that  he  might  comfort  their 
hearts;  and  this  man  he  designates  as  "A  beloved 
brother  and  faithful  minister  in  the  Lord." 

The  terms  in  which  he  speaks  of  his  friend  are 
very  suggestive,  and  they  must  have  already  called 
to  mind  one  who  was  for  some  years  in  very 
intimate  relations  with  you,  and  who  has  lately 
gone  to  his  rest.  Beloved  and  faithful:  —  a  per- 
son may  be  loved  in  a  certain  way  because  of  his 


amiable  temper  and  unwillingness  to  give  offence, 
while  perhaps  he  is  defective  in  many  of  those 
traits  of  character  which  go  to  form  a  useful, 
strong,  trustworthy  man.  Or,  again,  one  may  be 
faithful  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  rigid  in  his 
judgments,  prompt  to  rebuke,  and  still  there  may 
be  nothing  very  attractive  about  him,  nothing  to 
win  our  love,  or  incline  us  to  lean  upon  him  as  a 
friend.  It  is  the  combination  of  gentleness  with 
force,  of  grace  with  vigor,  of  beauty  with  strength, 
that  makes  the  complete  man. 

Throughout  the  New  Testament  the  quality  of 
faithfulness  is  that  which  is  most  dwelt  upon  in 
connection  with  the  Christian  Ministry.  It  is  not 
so  much  the  man's  gifts,  his  learning  and  eloquence, 
his  zeal  and  fervor,  his  influence  and  success,  that 
determines  his  fitness  for  the  position  of  a  Minister 
in  the  Church,  but  his  faithfulness,  his  willingness 
to  use  all  the  powers  that  he  has  in  the  service  of 
Christ,  his  implicit  trust  in  the  Master  whom  he 
serves,  and  his  entire  confidence  in  the  truth  he  is 
sent  to  proclaim.  This  assumes  the  possession  of 
a  faith  that  is  sustained  by  the  testimony  of  the 
man's  religious  sense,  and  the  results  of  his  own 
experiences,  —  a  faith  which  he  knows  to  be  true, 
because  it  has  lifted  him  out  of  the  mire  and  dark- 
ness, and  set  his  feet  upon  a  rock,  and  brought  him 
near  to  God,  —  a  faith  that  is  not  to  be  disturbed 


by  any  difficulties  of  science,  or  questions  of  biblical 
criticism,  or  theories  of  inspiration  ;  all  those  mat- 
ters belong  to  another  department,  and  he  can  put 
them  all  aside  by  saying,  "  I  know  that  I  live, 
because  I  exercise  the  functions  of  life  ;  I  know 
that  I  have  been  transformed,  renewed,  regener- 
ated, born  again  into  a  new  life  by  the  movement 
of  a  higher  Spirit  than  my  own,  and  therefore  I 
believe." 

Of  course  it  does  not  follow  that  science,  and 
criticism,  and  philosophy,  are  of  no  account,  but 
only  that  there  is  a  profounder  region  of  spiritual 
rest  which  they  cannot  penetrate.  Such  a  faithful 
Minister  will  be  earnest,  active,  persistent  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duties,  appreciating  their  importance 
and  enjoying  their  exercise.  He  will  never  shrink 
from  toil,  even  though  he  may  not  be  able  to  reap 
those  abundant  fruits  from  his  labor  which  he  had 
hoped  for  and  expected.  Many  a  servant  of  Christ 
is  called  to  do  his  work  under  very  unpropitious 
circumstances,  where  there  is  little  to  stimulate  his 
mind,  little  opportunity  for  culture,  little  appreci- 
ation of  any  thing  that  is  really  'great,  very  little 
exhilarating  companionship  —  perhaps  none  at  all  — 
very  likely  with  an  insufficient  and  uncertain  sti- 
pend;  and  here  he  is  obliged  to  labor  on,  year 
after  year,  alt  the  bright  visions  that  cheered  him 
in  his  younger  days  gradually  fading  away,  until 


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at  last  the  fatal  time  comes  when  it  is  too  late 
to  look  for  any  change,  —  the  sad  climacteric  after 
which  a  Clergyman  ceases  to  be  in  demand,  and 
there  is  nothing  left  for  him  but  to  make  the  best 
of  things  as  they  are,  and  try  to  do  his  duty  as 
well  as  he  can. 

Well,  it  might  be  a  great  deal  worse.  If  he 
were  in  a  high  position,  and  -not  trying  to  do  his 
duty  there,  —  preaching  an  elaborate  and  high-flown 
sermon  on  Sunday  morning  to  a  cultivated  and 
appreciative  congregation,  enjoying  his  books  and 
comforts  and  some  of  the  luxuries  of  life,  but  with 
no  higher  aspiration  than  the  advancement  of  his 
own  interests,  —  it  would  be  a  great  deal  worse  for 
him  than  it  is  now.  He  that  is  faithful  over  the 
least  shall  have  the  same  honor  at  last  with  him 
who  was  faithful  over  many.  Our  recompense  will 
be  awarded,  not  according  to  the  size  of  the  har- 
vest we  have  reaped,  but  according  to  its  quality, 
and  the  amount  of  honest  labor  that  has  been  ex- 
pended in  producing  it.  There  is  many  a  servant 
of  the  Lord  in  Paradise,  unknown  to  fame  while 
he  lived  here,  who  looks  down  from  a  great  height 
upon  row  after  row  of  mitred  Abbots,  and  Bishops, 
and  Popes,  —  men  with  historic  names,  —  if  indeed 
they  are  to  be  seen  in  Paradise  at  all.  Let  the 
humblest  Minister  of  Christ  remember  that,  if  he  is 
a  faithful  servant,  he  is  doing  the  grandest  and 


most  enduring  work  assigned  by  Almighty  God  to 
any  of  the  creatures  He  has  made,  and  take  com- 
fort in  that ;  and  he  can  never  tell  how  much  he 
has  accomplished  until  he  has  ceased  from  his  labor, 
and  entered  into  his  rest. 

The  power  of  a  faithful  life  cannot  be  readily 
appreciated.  It  works  without  observation.  There 
is  nothing  startling  about  it,  nothing  to  attract 
attention,  nothing  that  is  considered  very  grand  or 
sublime;  and  yet  the  man's  work  may  be  grander 
in  the  sight  of  God  than  the  mightiest  deeds  which 
distinguish  the  lives  of  those  who  live  in  marble 
after  they  are  dead. 

It  is  very  certain  that  in  the  Christian  Ministry 
no  other  attainments  are  of  much  account  if  the 
element  of  faithful  work  is  wanting.  The  man  who 
builds  a  ship  may  have  the  greatest  skill  as  to 
design,  the  best  of  tools,  and  the  best  possible 
materials,  but  if  he  does  not  drive  his  bolts  up  to 
the  mark,  or  if  he  leaves  one  loose-jointed  piece  of 
timber  in  the  ship,  the  first  great  storm  may  send 
the  vessel  to  the  bottom  of  the  deep. 

It  is  wonderful  to  see  how  much  may  be  accom- 
plished by  quiet,  faithful  persistence  in  well-doing. 
In  nature  the  greatest  and  most  permanent  results 
are  effected  slowly  and  without  much  noise.  Things 
fall  with  a  crash,  but  when  the  rebuilding  comes, 
it  is  a  still,  slow,  imperceptible  process.  It  is  thus 


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that  the  rock  is  converted  into  fertile  soil,  and  the 
acorn  is  changed  into  an  oak,  and  the  waters  of 
the  ocean  are  lifted  into  the  air  to  form  the  clouds 
and  the  dew.  Brilliant  work  may  attract  and  daz- 
zle us  for  the  moment,  but  sometimes  it  leaves 
very  little  behind.  The  quiet  stars  keep  on  shin- 
ing after  the  gold  and  silver  and  crimson  streams 
of  artificial  light  have  all  goite  out,  and  it  is  only 
that  which  abides  that  has  any  real  value. 

Then  it  is  to  be  observed  that  a  faithful  life  and 
faithful  teaching  reach  all  classes  alike,  the  high 
and  the  low,  the  rich  and  the  poor,  the  learned 
and  the  ignorant.  They  all  have  the  same  nature, 
the  same  weaknesses,  the  same  wants,  the  same 
cravings.  They  all  need  the  same  help,  the  same 
guidance,  the  same  enlightenment.  They  are  all 
children  of  the  same  God,  and  need  to  learn  the 
same  things  about  Him,  about  His  love  and  mercy, 
and  His  desire  to  save  them  all.  Jesus  died  for 
them  all,  and  they  must  cling  to  Him  if  they 
would  be  lifted  up  out  of  the  darkness.  It  is  the 
same  Gospel  for  all. 

One  great  secret  of  the  power  of  a*  faithful  life 
lies  in  the  fact  that  it  inspires  confidence.  It  is 
not  so  much  the  eminent  person,  the  man  of  mighty 
words,  upon  whom  the  world  leans  in  the  hour  of 
extremity,  whom  it  trusts  most  implicitly,  and  to 
whom  it  looks  for  comfort  as  well  as  help,  for 


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direction  as  well  as  support,  but  it  is  the  trust- 
worthy man,  the  man  whom  nobody  doubts,  the 
man  we  are  sure  of,  —  this  is  the  man  to  whom 
we  cling  when  everything  seems  to  be  sinking 
around  us.  "  A  faithful  Minister  in  the  Lord,"  — 
that  is  the  one  to  whom  we  would  go  when  we 
are  weighed  down  by  the  burden  of  sin,  or-  tossed 
on  the  sea  of  dismal  doubt,  or  perplexed  as  to  the 
way  of  duty,  or  anxious  about  the  future  ;  then  we 
go  instinctively  to  the  man  who  comes  nearest  the 
ideal  of  Christ,  because  we  have  confidence  in  him. 

If  God  has  also  endowed  His  Minister  with 
gigantic  powers,  with  that  real  gift  of  eloquence 
which  reaches  men's  souls,  and  fills  them  with  new 
life,  and  drives  out  of  their  hearts  all  the  mean 
and  sordid  things  that  had  found  refuge  there, 
then  are  we  thankful  for  such  a  man,  and  pray 
God  to  send  into  the  field  many  more  like  him ; 
but  such  men  are  rare,  and  the  ordinary  labor  in 
the  Lord's  vineyard  must  for  the  most  part  be 
done  by  those  who  are  content  with  the  fruits  that 
come  as  the  reward  of  quiet,  earnest,  honest,  con- 
tinuous toil. 

The  Minister  of  Christ,  who  is  truly  faithful, 
must  be  conscious  of  the  fact,  and  though  this 
would  never  fill  him  with  any  conceit  of  goodness, 
it  will  impart  strength  to  his  soul,  inspire  him  with 
noble  impulse,  and  lift  him  out  of  the  reach  of 


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every  form  of  trickery  and  meanness.  It  will  make 
him  bold,  daring  to  say  what  it  is  in  his  heart  to 
say,  whether  the  world  is  ready  to  hear  him  or  not. 
It  will  extricate  him  from  the  entanglement  of  vain 
and  trifling  disputations,  contentions  about  words, 
devotion  to  solemn  trifles,  fighting  over  dead  issues, 
and  trying  to  bring  back  that  which  would  be  of 
no  use  if  it  could  be  brought  to  life  again.  It  will 
lift  him  up  into  a  serener  atmosphere,  which  the 
pestilent  vapors  of  earth  never  reach,  and  where 
the  clouds  have  all  vanished,  and  the  horizon  ex- 
pands into  infinity,  where  silence  reigns,  and  the 
uproar  of  the  world  is  not  heard. 

Thank  God,  the  saints  are  not  all  dead.  There 
is  in  the  Church  to-day  as  large  a  proportion  of 
holy,  self-sacrificing,  faithful  Christians  ready  to 
go  to  the  stake  if  the  truth  should  demand  it,- 
men  who  are  going  about  doing  good,  bending  all 
their  energies  to  the  lifting  of  the  world  out  of  its 
low  estate,  and  establishing  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
here  as  there  ever  were.  Strange  would  it  be  if, 
after  an  experience  of  nearly  nineteen  hundred 
years,  with  all  the  lessons  it  has  taught,  and  all 
the  knowledge  that  has  been  acquired,  and  all  the 
warnings  we  have  had,  and  all  the  illustrious  ex- 
amples which  that  long  period  has  furnished, — 
strange,  indeed,  would  it  be  if  it  were  not  so. 
Strange  would  it  be  if  in  an  age  which  is  so  evi- 


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dently  moving  on  to  some  grand  result,  and  at  a 
time  when  science  and  art  and  humanity  are  on 
the  alert  as  they  never  were  before,  and  men  are 
grappling  with  moral  evils  that  have  always  been 
the  despair  of  the  world,  and  pulling  down  weather- 
beaten  idols  that  have  always  been  the  shame  of 
the  world  ;  strange  would  it  be  if  the  Church  were 
not  on  the  advance,  clearing  herself  of  incum- 
brances  that  have  for  ages  blocked  her  way;  taking 
down  decayed  old  defences  which  have  now  be- 
come the  vantage-ground  of  attack ;  searching  to 
find  the  Rock,  the  one  only  true  Foundation,  Jesus 
Christ  the  righteous,  the  sum  and  substance  of  our 
faith,  who  authenticates  Himself,  and  needs  no  en- 
dorser ;  trying  to  get  a  clearer  view  of  the  pur- 
pose for  which  He  established  His  kingdom,  and 
then  to  carry  out  the  work  which  the  Saviour  left 
for  His  Church  to  complete,  but  which,  in  her  great 
zeal  for  other  things,  the  Church  has  sadly  neg- 
lected, so  that  when  the  disciples  of  the  Agnostic 
come  to  us,  saying,  "  Have  you  found  the  Christ, 
or  must  we  look  for  another  ? ''  we  may  be  able 
to  reply,  "  Go,  tell  your  master,  the  deaf  hear,  the 
dumb  speak,  the  eyes  of  the  blind  are  opened,  the 
sick  are  healed,  the  prisoner  is  visited,  the  desti- 
tute are  cared  for,  the  ignorant  are  instructed,  the 
bonds  of  the  oppressed  are  broken,  and  the  poor 
have  the  Gospel  preached  to  them." 


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No  one  would  hesitate  to  say  that  the  late 
Bishop  of  Massachusetts  was  "  A  beloved  brother 
and  faithful  Minister  in  the  Lord."  The  elements 
of  tenderness  and  truthfulness  were  very  intimately 
blended  in  him.  If  he  had  any  failing,  it  was  in 
the  direction  of  excessive  scrupulousness  in  the 
discharge  of  his  duties.  No  detail  escaped  his  ob- 
servation, and  no  pressure  oY  time  could  induce 
him  to  slight  his  work.  He  turned  no  one  away 
unheard  who  wished  to  consult  him,  and  rarely,  if 
ever,  hurried  his  visitors  to  a  conclusion.  What- 
ever he  might  have  to  do  for  himself,  he  was  very 
ready  to  help  others  in  doing  their  work.  I  can 
testify  to  this  from  some  personal  experience,  for 
in  the  House  of  Bishops,  as  Chairman  of  an  im- 
portant Committee  of  which  he  was  a  member,  I 
always  found  him  ready  to  relieve  me  of  a  kind 
of  work  for  which  I  had  little  taste,  and  long  after 
we  had  adjourned  he  would  remain  at  his  desk 
preparing  the  reports  that  were  to  be  presented 
the  next  morning,  and  which  I  presume  I  had  the 
credit  of  writing. 

It  is  impossible  to  conceive  of  Bishop  Paddock's 
ever  doing  anything  in  direct  violation  of  his  con- 
science. He  probably  had  his  frailties  in  common 
with  the  rest  of  us,  but  they  were  not  apparent. 
It  seems  as  if  it  must  have  cost  him  as  great  an 
effort  to  do  wrong  as  it  does  for  most  people  to 


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do  right.  At  the  same  time  there  was  nothing  of- 
fensive or  intrusive  in  his  goodness.  "  His  virtues 
did  not  by  excess  reverse  their  very  nature."  He 
was  not  much  given  to  censorship,  and  spoke  as 
kindly  as  he  could  of  those  whom  he  had  least 
occasion  to  love.  Under  due  provocation  he  was 
capable  of  indulging  in  a  little  wholesome  sharp- 
ness, but  the  touch  of  quiet  humor  that  accom- 
panied the  rebuke  took  all  the  venom  out  of  the 
sting. 

There  was  a  singular  outspokenness  and  truth- 
fulness about  the  man ;  you  feel  that  he  said  just 
what  he  meant,  nothing  less  and  nothing  more, 
nothing  concealed  that  ought  to  be  uttered,  and 
nothing  uttered  that  would  better  have  been  con- 
cealed. I  think  that,  although  he  talked  much,  he 
said  very  few  imprudent  things,  very  few  that  he 
had  reason  to  be  sorry  for  having  said.  His  am- 
plitude of  utterance  seemed  to  grow  out  of  his  in- 
stinctive desire  to  be  thorough,  so  that  when  he 
spoke  he  usually  made  a  clean  breast  of  it,  which, 
unlike  some  others,  he  could  do  with  safety.  I 
have  never  known  a  more  transparent  man,  and 
you  could  see  through  him,  without  seeing  any 
thing  to  offend  you.  It  would  have  been  hard 
work  for  Bishop  Paddock  to  play  the  hypocrite  ; 
he  would  certainly  have  betrayed  himself  in  the 
effort. 


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Singleness  of  purpose  was  one  of  the  most  prom- 
inent traits  in  this  good  man's  character.  He  never 
appeared  to  have  any  selfish  ends  in  view,  or  to  do 
anything  merely  for  the  sake  of  advancing  his  own 
reputation.  It  is  this  that  makes  it  so  easy  to  de- 
pict the  man,  that  there  are  no  contradictory  ele- 
ments to  be  harmonized,  no  inconsistencies  to  be 
reconciled  or  apologized  for,  no  tortuous  ways  to 
be  straightened  out,  no  hidden  passages,  no  ob- 
scure retreats  to  be  penetrated.  In  the  best  sense, 
his  character  lies  on  the  surface,  because  of  its 
simplicity  —  known  and  read  of  all  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact.  If  he  raised  no  very  high  ex- 
pectations, he  never  disappointed  you,  because  he 
made  no  extravagant  pretensions.  He  had  a  just 
and  becoming  self-respect,  and  a  clear  sense  of 
what  was  due  to  him  and  his  office,  but  he  had 
no  arrogance  of  speech  nor  arrogance  of  manner; 
he  was  modest,  because  he  was  single-eyed  and 
unselfish.  There  was  no  indirection  about  him ;  it 
was  not  his  habit  to  depreciate  himself  in  order 
to  elicit  praise.  He  lived  for  the  work  which  he 
was  appointed  to  do,  and  this  absorbed  him,  filled 
up  the  full  measure  of  his  powers,  and  consumed 
all  his  time. 

This  singleness  of  purpose  led  him  to  confine 
himself  strictly  to  the  work  of  his  ministry,  so  that 
he  was  not  much  known  in  other  relations.  It 


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might  have  been  desired  by  some  that  he  should 
identify  himself  more  actively  with  certain  things 
that  were  going  on  outside  of  the  Church,  but  he 
probably  knew  his  own  limits  better  than  other 
people.  Certainly  his  influence  was  felt  in  society 
at  large  as  much  as  that  of  any  of  his  predecessors 
had  been. 

The  intellectual  and  theological  peculiarities  of 
the  region  in  which  he  was  called  to  minister  did 
not  matter  much  with  him,  and  if  he  had  been 
asked  to  meet  those  who  diifered  from  him  for  a 
conference  on  the  plain,  as  Nehemiah  was,  he  would 
probably  have  answered  with  that  stern  old  war- 
rior, "  I  am  doing  a  great  work,  so  that  I  cannot 
come  down :  why  should  the  work  cease,  while  I 
leave  it  and  come  down  to  you  ? " 

Abstaining  as  he  did  from  any  familiar  contact 
with  persons  of  a  diiferent  faith,  or  of  no  faith  at 
all,  and  reading  very  little,  perhaps  nothing  of 
what  they  wrote,  he  was  little  disturbed  by  modern 
controversies,  and  his  faith  was  never  in  the  slight- 
est degree  affected  by  critical,  or  scientific,  or  philo- 
sophical difficulties.  His  mind  was  not  of  a  specu- 
lative turn,  and  he  needed  no  formidable  bulwarks 
to  support  his  faith.  He  believed,  because  he  knew; 
and  he  knew,  because  he  believed.  For  this  reason 
he  moved  on  a  very  even  keel,  and  no  ordinary 
breeze  could  disturb  his  balance.  I  doubt  whether 


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he  ever  changed  an  important  opinion  in  the  whole 
course  of  his  life.  He  saw  very  clearly  as  far  as 
he  could  see,  and  beyond  that  it  did  not  concern 
him.  He  was  content  to  leave  the  mysterious  un- 
solved. He  left  all  that  he  could  not  comprehend 
with  God.  He  never  allowed  what  he  did  know 
to  be  disturbed  by  what  he  did  not  know. 

Such  men  as  these  are  needed  in  a  tempestuous 
age  like  ours.  Other  kinds  of  men  are  also  needed, 
but  we  cannot  afford  to  dispense  with  the  calm, 
undisturbed,  steady,  implicit  believer.  Amid  the 
gloom  and  the  storm  we  need  the  lights  on  the 
shore,  always  in  the  same  place,  and  burning  on 
with  the  same  steady  flame,  to  let  us  know  where 
we  are,  and  where  the  reefs  and  the  rocks  lie,  and 
how  we  may  find  a  harbor. 

A  man  of  Bishop  Paddock's  temperament  could 
not  be  an  extreme  man,  and,  as  you  all  know,  he 
was  noted  for  his  moderation.  He  could  never  be 
made  to  identify  himself  with  a  party  until  he  could 
see  that  some  practical  good  was  to  be  derived 
from  the  peculiar  views  of  the  party.  He  believed 
in  the  Church,  as  well  as  in  the  Gospel,  with  all 
his  heart,  and  mind,  and  soul,  and  nothing  could 
induce  him  to  be  disloyal  to  her  doctrines,  her  con- 
stitution, her  usages,  or  her  rubrics;  but  this  loyalty 
rested  upon  reasonable  grounds,  such  as  could  be 
verified  by  Scripture,  history,  and  the  teachings  of 


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experience.  Theologically  he  would  be  character- 
ized as  a  perfectly  sound  man,  with  no  eccentrici- 
ties of  belief,  no  extravagant  views,  and  no  novel 
theories.  He  preached  the  Gospel  as  he  had  re- 
ceived it  from  those  who  went  before  him,  only 
with  a  little  more  fervor,  and  breadth.  He  never 
sought  after  popularity,  and,  in  his  own  opinion, 
could  not  have  attained  it  if  he  had  tried.  He 
had  something  better  in  view  than  that.  It  was 
his  great  desire  to  bring  men  to  Christ,  and  up- 
hold the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus. 

In  every  emergency  he  was  a  courageous  man, 
and  always  true  to  his  convictions.  I  have  been 
more  than  once  struck  with  this  in  the  debates  of 
the  House  of  Bishops.  He  was  not  easily  carried 
away  with  the  tide,  —  if  there  could  be  said  to  be 
such  a  thing  as  a  tide  in  that  quiet  and  peaceful 
body,  —  he  always  had  his  own  views  on  every  im- 
portant subject,  and  stated  them  without  reserve. 
On  several  contested  questions  of  a  somewhat  deli- 
cate nature  he  has  stood  almost,  if  not  absolutely, 
alone. 

I  have  often  heard  it  said  that  no  one  could 
preside  in  Convention  more  admirably  than  Bishop 
Paddock.  He  kept  his  eye  on  every  thing  that 
was  going  on,  and  was  not  easily  confused  by  the 
entanglement  in  which  ecclesiastical  legislators  are 
so  apt  to  ensnare  themselves.  He  was  fair  to  all, 


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and  took  no  advantage  of  his  position  to  carry  a 
point  as  he  might  wish  it  to  be  carried.  In  the 
general  administration  of  Diocesan  affairs  he  neg- 
lected nothing,  slighted  nothing,  and  might  be  said 
to  have  kept  a  microscopic  watch  over  the  flock. 
At  the  same  time  he  did  not  lord  it  over  God's 
heritage,  nor  magnify  his  office  in  any  unseemly  way. 
He  was  not  in  the  habit  of  interfering  with  his 
Clergy  when  he  had  no  business  to  interfere,  neither 
did  he  make  his  own  personal  opinion  the  law  by 
which  they  were  to  be  guided.  While  he  demanded, 
of  course,  that  his  own  rights  should  be  respected, 
he  also  respected  the  rights  of  the  Clergy  and 
Laity  ;  for  this  reason  he  was  able  to  secure  by 
his  influence  that  which  another  might  fail  to  ac- 
complish by  the  exercise  of  authority. 

As  great  outward  success  has  attended  the  ad- 
ministration of  your  lamented  Bishop,  so  the  gen- 
eral influence  of  his  policy  and  temper  has  been  to 
soften  asperities,  and  reconcile  those  who  in  main 
respects  differed  in  sentiment.  The  large  liberty 
that  he  has  allowed,  and  the  abstaining  from  in- 
terference in  all  cases  where  it  was  possible  to  do 
so  without  occasioning  mischief,  have  tended  to  this 
result.  Nothing  helps  a  cause,  right  or  wrong,  in 
these  days,  so  much  as  persecution,  and  in  default 
of  this  the  reputation  of  being  persecuted  is  a 
great  aid,  which  some  persons  know  very  well  how 


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to  improve;  and  Bishop  Paddock,  understanding  all 
this,  never  went  about  as  a  heresy  hunter,  or  a 
rubrical  inspector,  or  in  search  of  innovations.  I 
think  that  all  parties  will  bear  witness  to  this.  If 
essential  truth,  or  essential  order,  or  essential  con- 
formity to  law  and  usage  were  the  matter  at  issue, 
no  one  could  be  firmer  than  he,  or  more  out-spoken; 
but  he  had  the  good  sense  to  remember  that  "  There 
are  so  many  kinds  of  voices  in  the  world,  and  none 
of  them  is  without  signification." 

The  growth  of  this  Diocese  is,  in  a  great  measure, 
attributable  to  the  interest  manifested  by  Bishop 
Paddock  in  watching  over  the  infant  Missions 
which  have  come  into  being  so  rapidly  in  Massa- 
chusetts under  his  administration.  Neither  was  his 
Missionary  zeal  confined  to  this  department  of 
work ;  he  took  an  active  part  in  all  the  great 
Missionary  enterprises  of  the  Church  at  home  and 
abroad,  his  counsels  were  sought  for  in  the  con- 
duct of  affairs,  and  he  never  shrank  from  any  duty 
that  was  laid  upon  him  by  the  Church. 

lie  was  equally  conspicuous  for  his  interest  in 
the  work  of  education  in  connection  with  the 
Church.  There  was  no  Alumnus  of  Trinity  Col- 
lege who  took  a  more  active  part  in  promoting  its 
welfare;  no  Bishop  outside  of  the  Diocese  of  Con- 
necticut was  more  frequently  found  in  attendance 
at  its  public  exercises,  or  so  intimately  identified 


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with  its  operations.  A  similar  interest  was  shown 
in  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  and  the  Cam- 
bridge Theological  School  ;  and,  in  fact,  wherever 
there  was  any  good  work  going  on,  which  he  re- 
garded as  corning  fairly  within  his  sphere,  whether 
it  related  to  temperance,  or  charitable  work,  or 
social  reforms,  he  was  ready  to  give  his  time  and 
his  best  efforts  for  its  advancement.  He  was  not 
confined  to  any  narrow  circle,  but  his  heart  went 
out  towards  every  great  movement  that  seemed 
likely  to  help  on  the  world.  In  this  respect  he 
was  in  full  accord  with  the  temper  of  the  times, 
and  recognized  most  thoroughly  the  obligations  de- 
manded of  him  by  the  age  in  which  he  lived. 

Of  what  he  was  in  the  home  circle,  and  in 
general  intercourse  with  his  friends,  I  do  not  feel 
prepared  to  speak  as  intelligently  as  I  could  wish. 
I  can  only  .infer,  from  the  little  that  I  knew  of  him 
in  this  relation,  that,  wherever  he  might  be,  he  must 
have  lighted  up  the  room  with  sunshine,  and  that, 
in  his  own  household,  he  must  have  been  the  pattern 
of  all  that  is  kind,  and  lovely,  and  affectionate,  a 
loving  husband,  a  gentle  father,  a  genial  compan- 
ion, —  never  losing  his  dignity,  but  without  any 
show  of  sternness,  —  a  companion  as  well  as  a 
guide,  a  friend  as  well  as  a  counsellor.  How  he 
must  be  missed  there  !  In  his  more  general  inter- 
course with  others,  Bishop  Paddock  might  be  said 


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to  have  been,  in  the  best  sense  of  the  term,  good 
company,  —  he  always  had  something  pleasant  to 
say,  and  was  never  wanting  in  material  for  con- 
versation, and  without  the  slightest  tendency  to 
frivolity,  almost  always  having  some  bright  and 
cheerful  thing  to  tell  you ;  and,  if  one  were  in 
trouble,  he  would  feel  sure  of  his  sympathy.  It 
would  be  hard  to  conceive  of  his  ever  having  had 
an  enemy,  or  knowingly  doing  an  injustice  to  an- 
other. He  had  a  well-rounded  character,  and  was 
not  a  man  who  needed  watching,  or  needed  to  be 
apologized  for.  Nobody  ever  said  that  Bishop 
Paddock  was  not  a  good  man. 

BENJAMIN  HENRY  PADDOCK  was  born  in  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  on  the  29th  of  February,  1828.  He 
is  said  to  have  been  a  sedate  and  quiet  boy,  but 
not  much  interested  in  study  until  he  reached  the 
age  of  fourteen,  when  he  was  confirmed,  and  de- 
cided to  become  a  Minister  of  the  Church.  What 
his  general  character  must  have  been  may  be  in- 
ferred from  the  fact  of  his  being  called  to  become 
the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church  in  his  own  native 
town,  the  offspring  of  Christ  Church,  his  father's 
former  parish.  He  graduated  at  Trinity  College, 
Hartford,  in  1848,  and  at  the  General  Theological 
Seminary,  New  York,  in  1852.  He  was  admitted 
to  Deacon's  Orders  in  Christ  Church,  Stratford, 


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Conn.,  on  the  29th  day  of  June,  1852,  by  the  ven- 
erable Bishop  Brownell,  and  on  the  27th  day  of 
September,  1853,  he  was  ordained  Priest  in  Trinity 
Church,  Norwich,  Conn.,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  John 
Williams,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese.  During1  a  por- 
tion of  his  Diaconate  he  officiated  as  the  Assistant 
Minister  in  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany,  New  York 
City,  and  in  the  spring  of  1853  he  became  the 
Rector  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  Portland,  Maine,  but 
was  unable  to  resist  the  rigors  of  the  climate,  and 
soon  returned  to  Connecticut.  In  the  autumn  of 
1853,  he  became  the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Nor- 
wich, and  after  a  residence  in  Norwich  of  nearly 
seven  years,  he  removed  to  Michigan,  and  became 
the  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Detroit.  In  May, 
1869,  he  removed  to  New  York,  and  became  the 
Rector  of  Grace  Church,  Brooklyn,  and  there  he 
remained  until  his  election  to  the  Episcopate.  The 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Sacred  Theology  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  in  1867. 

The  record  of  his  life,  which  was  scrupulously 
kept  during  this  entire  period,  and  the  printed 
papers  of  various  sorts,  carefully  preserved  in  a 
well  bound  scrap-book,  give  abundant  evidence  of 
his  patient  and  indefatigable  labors. 

With  the  exception  of  his  Convention  Reports, 
Pastoral  Letters,  and  Official  Charges,  he  published 
comparatively  little.  I  find  among  his  productions 


a  few  funeral  discourses,  always  touching  and  ap- 
propriate; a  spirited  and  patriotic  sermon  preached 
before  one  of  the  Michigan  Regiments  in  1861 ;  a 
sermon  before  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of 
Michigan,  published  by  special  request,  and  well  de- 
serving the  honor,  the  text  of  which  is  suggestive : 
"Who,  then,  is  that  faithful  and  wise  steward?"; 
an  address  to  the  students  of  Trinity  College,  and 
another  at  De  Yeaux  College ;  a  Missionary  ad- 
dress delivered  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  which  I 
had  the  pleasure  of  hearing  ;  a  Missionary  sermon 
preached  in  Calvary  Church,  ^Tew  York,  and  a 
Magazine  review  of  a  book  on  Sacred  Oratory, 
which  is  full  of  humor  and  lively  sarcasm.  So  far 
as  I  have  been  able  to  ascertain,  this  is  all  that 
he  left  behind  him  in  print.  He  had  not  much 
leisure  for  miscellaneous  writing,  and  the  marks  of 
what  he  accomplished  must  be  looked  for  in  other 
places  than  in  books. 

His  consecration  as  Bishop  of  Massachusetts  took 
place  in  Grace  Church,  Brooklyn,  on  the  17th  day 
of  September,  1873,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Benjamin  Bos- 
worth  Smith  officiating  as  consecrator,  assisted  by 
five  other  Bishops. 

It  cannot  be  said  that  he  had  sought  the  eleva- 
tion which  now  came  to  him,  for  no  one  could  be 
more  surprised  than  he  was,  when,  on  one  quiet 
night  in  May,  as  he  so  pleasantly  has  described  the 


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scene,  after  a  beautiful  sunset,  and  the  prayers  of 
the  evening  had  been  said,  a  dispatch  arrived  an- 
nouncing his  election  as  the  Bishop  of  Massachu- 
setts. With  his  retiring  and  unambitious  spirit,  it 
came  to  him  both  as  a  shock  and  a  surprise  ;  and 
if  he  had  not  felt  that  the  path  of  duty  was  clear 
he  would  hardly  have  ventured  to  accept  the  office. 
The  circumstances  of  his  election  are  familiar 
to  many  of  you,  and  need  not  be  dwelt  upon  now. 
To  be  the  choice  of  such  a  body  of  Clergy  and 
Laity  as  were  represented  in  the  Diocese  of  Mass- 
achusetts, and  after  men  of  such  distinguished 
power  and  elevated  character  on  both  sides  had 
failed  of  an  election,  was  in  itself  a  singular  mark 
of  confidence  and  respect ;  but  it  was  no  slight 
matter  to  enter  upon  a  field,  where  for  a  time  such 
serious  differences  of  opinion  had  existed,  with  the 
hope  of  bringing  about  harmony  and  peace,  and  a 
general  co-operation  in  carrying  on  the  work  of 
the  Church.  To  what  extent  Bishop  Paddock  suc- 
ceeded in  doing  this,  appears  in  the  fact  that,  dur- 
ing his  Episcopate  of  seventeen  years,  the  number 
of  Clergy  increased  from  129  to  192,  and  the 
number  of  Communicants  from  11,551  to  27,118. 
Meanwhile  the  Episcopal  Church  has  obtained  such 
a  hold  in  this  Commonwealth  as  it  never  had  be- 
fore ;  it  is  beginning  to  be  felt  as  an  actual  power 
in  society  ;  its  existence  is  recognized  by  the  secu- 


lar  press,  and  from  almost  every  quarter  there  is 
a  drift  in  our  direction. 

In  order  to  illustrate  the  changes  which  I  have 
lived  to  see,  will  you  allow  me  for  a  moment  to 
recur  to  a  more  remote  period  in  the  history  of 
the  Diocese.  I  was  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Church  Convention  that  met  in  Boston  in  the 
year  1836.  It  was  not  a  Diocese  then,  it  being 
one  of  the  members  of  the  old  Eastern  Diocese, 
which  originally  embraced  all  of  ^N"ew  England, 
except  Connecticut.  In  that  Convention,  fifty-five 
years  ago,  there  were  present  thirty-one  Clergy- 
men, forty-three  being  entitled  to  seats,  of  whom 
there  are  but  two  living  beside  myself,  Bishop 
Howe,  of  Central  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Leach,  of  Providence,  now  near  his  end.*  Twenty- 
one  Parishes  were  represented,  and  of  the  Laity 
present  on  that  occasion,  so  far  as  I  know,  .but 
onef  survives.  He  is  now  the  Warden  of  St.  Paul's 
Church,  ^ewburyport,  and  although  he  is  95  years 
old,  I  had  hoped  that  he  would  be  present  here  to- 
day, but  he  writes  me  that  he  does  not  expect  to 
be  with  us. 

The  period  of  which  I  speak  was  the  day  of 
small  things.  The  Parochial  Reports  in  1836  showed 
that  there  had  been  118  persons  confirmed  during 

*  Died  May  16,  1891.  f  Mr-  Nathanael  Foster. 


the  year,  and  that  the  whole  number  of  communi- 
cants was  1,913.  The  contributions  for  Missions 
and  other  religious  purposes,  irrespective  of  Parish 
expenses,  was  $8,724.  The  Bishop  made  no  reports 
to  the  State  Convention,  and  on  this  occasion,  after 
attending  the  opening  religious  services,  he  retired, 
and  a  Presbyter  was  called  to  the  chair,  —  the 
Bishop's  presence  being  expected  only  at  his  own 
convenience. 

From  the  time  of  his  consecration  as  Bishop  of 
the  Eastern  Diocese  in  1811,  until  the  year  1835, 
Bishop  Griswold  was  entirely  dependent  upon  a 
Parish  for  his  support ;  but,  at  last,  the  hearts  of 
the  good  people  of  the  Diocese  were  softened,  and 
an  assessment  of  $500  per  annum  was  levied  in 
order  to  provide  him  with  assistance  in  administer- 
ing his  Parish,  when  he  was  occupied  with  his 
visitations.  It  was  characteristic  of  the  man,  that 
he  used  this  money  to  sustain  a  Missionary  in  the 
wilds  of  Maine. 

At  the  time  of  which  I  speak,  many  of  the 
great  centres  of  population  in  Massachusetts  had 
never  known  what  it  was  to  have  an  Episcopal 
service.  There  were  four  Churches  in  Boston,  all 
of  respectable  size,  and  one  small  Parish  struggling 
into  existence  in  South  Boston.  Within  a  radius  of 
fifteen  or  twenty  miles  there  were  eight  Churches, 


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and  north-east  of  Boston  only  three  —  no  new 
Parish  having  been  established  in  that  direction  for 
more  than  a  century.  On  the  line  from  Boston  to 
Pittsfield,  through  the  centre  of  the  State,  after 
passing  ]STewton  Lower  Falls,  there  were  only  three 
very  feeble  Churches.  West  of  the  Connecticut 
river,  there  were  five  or  six  Churches,  not  over- 
strong  —  St.  James',  Greenfield ;  St.  Thomas',  Taun- 
ton ;  and  Grace  Church,  ~New  Bedford,  complete 
the  list.  What  a  different  spectacle  this  good  old 
Commonwealth  presents  to-day ! 

It  does  not  seem  as  if  this  could  be  the  same 
assembly  with  that  in  which  I  sat  so  many  years 
ago.  In  one  sense  it  is,  —  it  represents  the  same 
principles,  it  meets  for  the  same  purposes,  it  is 
governed  by  the  same  laws ;  but  every  thing  else 
is  new.  It  is  a  new  generation  that  is  sitting  here 
to-day,  and  every  new  generation  brings  with  it 
new  issues. 

In  those  old  days  there  were  but  few  of  us, 
and  we  knew  each  other  well ;  and  at  this  hour 
I  can  see  forms  that  you  do  not  see,  and  I  hear 
voices  that  you  cannot  hear.  How  natural  and 
familiar  the  past  seems,  and  how  strange  the 
present!  If  the  old  roll  had  been  called  this 
morning,  who  would  there  have  been  to  answer 
to  their  names  ? 


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And  so  we  are  all  moving  on  to  the  end.  The 
places  which  knew  us  will  soon  know  us  no  more 
forever.  Whatever  we  do,  is  it  not  well  for  us 
to  consider  how  we  shall  be  likely  to  regard  our 
work  when  the  end  comes  ? 

Brethren  of  the  Clergy  and  Laity,  —  you  are 
now  called  upon  to  discharge  a  most  responsible 
duty,  in  the  election  of  one  to  fill  the  place  of 
that  faithful  Minister  in  the  Lord  whose  loss  we 
all  so  deeply  mourn.  It  would  be  unbecoming  for 
me  to  say  anything  that  would  give  reasonable 
offence  to  any  member  of  this  Convention,  or  that 
would  be  likely  to  bias  the  mind  of  any  one  in 
opposition  to  his  individual  convictions.  It  is  to 
be  assumed  that  you  all  have  one  end  in  view, 
and  that  is  the  advancement  of  Christ's  kingdom 
on  earth,  and  the  securing  of  one  to  guide  your 
counsels,  who  will  be  fettered  by  no  narrow  party 
lines,  and  ready  to  accord  to  all  the  same  liberty 
in  the  Gospel  that  he  claims  for  himself.  You  all 
want,  if  possible,  to  find  one  who  is  competent  to 
be  a  leader  of  men,  sound  in  all  the  essentials  of 
the  faith,  evermore  ready  to  spread  abroad  the 
Gospel  of  Christ  —  the  glad  tidings  of  reconcili- 
ation, —  to  use  the  authority  given  him,  not  to  de- 
struction, but  to  salvation;  not  to  hurt,  but  to  help; 


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one  earnest  to  reprove,  beseech,  and  rebuke,  with 
all  patience  and  doctrine,  and  a  wholesome  example 
in  word,  in  conversation,  in  love,  in  faith,  in  chastity, 
and  in  purity ;  one  who  will  be  to  the  flock  of  Christ 
a  shepherd,  not  a  wolf;  holding  up  the  weak,  bind- 
ing up  the  broken,  bringing  again  the  outcast,  and 
seeking  the  lost. 

This  is  the  kind  of  man  whom  you  all  want,  and 
however  you  may  differ  in  your  estimates  of  the 
men  whose  names  may  now  be  presented  to  you, 
be  careful  to  say  nothing  and  to  do  nothing  that 
might  tend  to  weaken  the  bonds  of  Christian  love, 
or  bring  discredit  upon  the  Church  which  you  love 
so  well. 

Before  the  Saviour  sent  out  His  Apostles  to  the 
discharge  of  their  great  commission,  He  continued 
all  night  in  prayer.  Would  it  not  be  better  if  the 
time  that  is  sometimes  spent  in  discussion  on  such 
occasions  as  the  present  were  passed  in  nets  of 
humble  devotion  ? 

I  did  not  intend  to  make  the  slightest  allusion 
to  the  approaching  election,  but  there  is  something 
so  impressive  in  the  solemnity  of  the  present  crisis, 
and  such  tremendous  results  are  dependent  upon 
your  present  action,  that  I  found  it  impossible  to 
resist  the  impulse  which  has  led  me  to  utter  these 
few  simple  words  of  counsel. 


I  have  lived  to  attend  the  funerals  of  three 
Bishops  of  Massachusetts,  —  that  of  the  sainted 
and  gentle-minded  Bishop  Griswold,  the  honest  and 
out-spoken  Bishop  Eastburn,  and  now  the  sainted 
and  honest  and  faithful  Bishop  Paddock  has  gone. 
His  work  is  done,  and  he  is  at  rest.  How  patiently 
he  endured  the  bitter  pains  that  came  upon  him 
before  his  release  you  all  well  know.  How  persis- 
tently he  tried  to  perform  the  little  duties  which  it 
was  possible  for  him  to  discharge  you  also  know. 
It  was  touching  to  see  with  what  characteristic 
punctiliousness  he  prepared  the  programme  of  the 
Diocesan  work  which  he  was  obliged  to  devolve 
upon  others ;  and  one  brief  postscript  attached  to 
the  programme,  — "  Please  do  not  vary  from  this 
arrangement  any  more  than  you  can  help,  for  it 
has  been  prepared  with  great  labor  and  care,"- 
was  so  like  him. 

What  a  change  in  his  own  household,  now  that 
he  has  departed !  There  is  only  one  Hand  that 
can  stay  the  bereaved  ones  in  their  sorrow,  only  one 
Voice  that  can  comfort  them,  only  one  Presence 
that  can  bring  the  light  back  to  their  dwelling. 
Neither  can  we  forget  to-day  the  far-off  brother 
in  the  West,  toiling  in  a  wider  and  rougher  field, 
and  who,  in  more  respects  than  one,  is  left  to  labor 
alone. 


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But  then  we  must  remember  the  infinite  gain 
that  has  come  to  him,  who  has  now  exchanged  his 
armor  for  the  palm ;  has  laid  down  the  cross  to 
put  on  the  crown ;  has  been  called  in  from  the 
toil  of  the  road  to  enjoy  the  sweet  repose  of 
Paradise,  and  sit  down  with  Jesus  at  the  mar- 
riage supper  of  the  Lamb,  and  hear  from  His  lips 
the  blessed  words,  "Well  done,  good  and  faithful 
servant,  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 


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